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I happened to see the gaf thread right when it started, and watched it just explode, and perhaps I just do not follow gaming like I once did, but I do not get what the big deal is here? That it is going to be announced soon? Or that they are working on it?

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Athernar 604

The slides from SDD are due to be released at some point, seems legit to me.

The small text slide in the bottom left corner also seems to talk about new tooling with a powerful new GUI frontend, which fits with "leaked" icon assets and probably describes a Python/Qt frontend like Source Filmmaker uses.

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Andrew 2,678

I happened to see the gaf thread right when it started, and watched it just explode, and perhaps I just do not follow gaming like I once did, but I do not get what the big deal is here? That it is going to be announced soon? Or that they are working on it?

If it is the latter, is that really such a surprise?

When it comes to Valve I think people get pretty excited to hear they're working on anything at all, seeing as they are so secretive. It could be a name or a logo or a screenshot and people would flip lol.

We already knew Source 2 was in dev, GabeN told 4Chan when they went to Valve offices on/around his birthday. This news may mean our first experience of it will be L4D3, and maybe sooner than HL3.

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Boo Berry 2,264

Boo Berry 2,264

Interesting, they might actually release updated builds of Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress and Dota 2 with Source 2. That'd also explain why they're not interested in releasing patches to fix obvious issues in the Linux version of L4D2.

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Brendeth 178

Even if this is a legit slideshow from Valve, all it proves is that Source 2 is being produced and they remade a level in LFD2 to show that off, it doesn't really prove the existence of a third game. In saying that I'd love a third game and an amazing Source 2 engine in the hands of more devs!

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When it comes to Valve I think people get pretty excited to hear they're working on anything at all, seeing as they are so secretive. It could be a name or a logo or a screenshot and people would flip lol.

We already knew Source 2 was in dev, GabeN told 4Chan when they went to Valve offices on/around his birthday. This news may mean our first experience of it will be L4D3, and maybe sooner than HL3.

That's actually been widely reported already. Fans who visited Valve took a photo that showed developers chatting about Left4Dead 3, and leaked information from a Valve server showed development groups for both Source 2 and Left4Dead 3.

That makes me think this could be a well-researched hoax, but obviously it also means this could be legit. It's really impossible to know based on what little these PowerPoint screenshots show.

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LaP 1,707

That's actually been widely reported already. Fans who visited Valve took a photo that showed developers chatting about Left4Dead 3, and leaked information from a Valve server showed development groups for both Source 2 and Left4Dead 3.

That makes me think this could be a well-researched hoax, but obviously it also means this could be legit. It's really impossible to know based on what little these PowerPoint screenshots show.

We all know Source 2, L4D3, HL3, a new counter strike and new or revamped version or Team Fortress and Dota will happen sooner than later unless Valve is totally stupid.

Of course Valve main focus is now Steam. But the best way to "sell" a platform is still to make exclusive first party titles for it (i.e. not avalaible on Origin or Uplay).

Valve would be totally nuts to not be working on Source 2 and Source 2 games right now. Saying Source 2 will happen in the next 5 years to me is like saying the birds can fly and the sun will rise tomorrow.

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We all know Source 2, L4D3, HL3, a new counter strike and new or revamped version or Team Fortress and Dota will happen sooner than later unless Valve is totally stupid.

Of course Valve main focus is now Steam. But the best way to "sell" a platform is still to make exclusive first party titles for it (i.e. not avalaible on Origin or Uplay).

Valve would be totally nuts to not be working on Source 2 and Source 2 games right now. Saying Source 2 will happen in the next 5 years to me is like saying the birds can fly and the sun will rise tomorrow.

The point was that the Source 2 and Left 4 Dead 3 development teams were bigger than the other development teams, implying they're the focus at Valve.

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That's actually been widely reported already. Fans who visited Valve took a photo that showed developers chatting about Left4Dead 3, and leaked information from a Valve server showed development groups for both Source 2 and Left4Dead 3.

That makes me think this could be a well-researched hoax, but obviously it also means this could be legit. It's really impossible to know based on what little these PowerPoint screenshots show.

I remember reading that news on Gaf/Reddit.

Pretty mellow for a hoax though. If CBOAT wanted to really create hype he could have went with HL3.

We all know Source 2, L4D3, HL3, a new counter strike and new or revamped version or Team Fortress and Dota will happen sooner than later unless Valve is totally stupid.

Of course Valve main focus is now Steam. But the best way to "sell" a platform is still to make exclusive first party titles for it (i.e. not avalaible on Origin or Uplay).

Valve would be totally nuts to not be working on Source 2 and Source 2 games right now. Saying Source 2 will happen in the next 5 years to me is like saying the birds can fly and the sun will rise tomorrow.

I wouldn't expect a new CS anytime soon. CS:GO is just taking off in the pro circuit after a very cold reception. If anything they'll port it to Source 2.0, but I doubt they'll have a new installment.

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I'm hoping for a single OpenGL based renderer, proper real time lighting, deferred rendering and a streaming style map format.

I'm thinking the whole Source 2 work grew out of the original EP3 work. Gabe said they were working on EP3 alongside EP2, and even though Valve does have a lax environment, I doubt they'd go 5 years without making anything to show.